Re: groff alternative?

From: Diomidis Spinellis (dds_at_aueb.gr)
Date: 04/26/05

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To: Emanuel Strobl <Emanuel.strobl@gmx.net>

    Emanuel Strobl wrote:
    > I'm using NO_CXX in my make.conf to strip down the base system to ~50MB
    > including man pages. The only problem is that groff is missing if I don't
    > build c++, and even if I build groff itself and the needed libstdc++ it costs
    > me about 10MB. If I just skip NO_CXX it's only 500k more, so I moved my
    > patches to /dev/null.
    > Does anybody know any alternative for the groff part to view man pages simply
    > with the man command? It's horrible that the filter needs more space than all
    > the manpages itself!

    Have you considered preformatting the manual pages on the development
    system, and copying over the pages into /usr/share/man/cat* of the
    shrinked-down system?

    > And of course, even if I decide to leave system man pages outside the flash
    > card I still may want to read man pages of installed packages (which is
    > another mountpoint on my installation, so there may be no space limit,
    > depending on the card and additional drives)

    Again, it appears your shrinked-down system has access to a more
    powerful machine. You could modify man to run groff on the remote machine. 

    -- 
Diomidis - dds@ - http://www.spinellis.gr
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